Wonder why some people think that on end of the spectrum, you have fascism(supposedly on the right) and on the other end you have Communism. They are after all, just different types of fascism. The history is that Stalin did not like his movement being lumped in with everybody else such as National Socialist Party(NAZIS).
So to distinguish communism from Nazism, they started talking as if they were on opposite ends of the political spectrum. It worked, we still look at it today in Stalin's way all these many years later. When in fact, communism, socialism, fascism are all brothers. On the other end is capitalism. Unfortunately nowadays we are drifting away from capitalism toward socialism, little by little. It happened during World War I, when large business colluded with President Wilson to try to drive out the small businessman from competing with them. It happened again during WW II under FDR. Now however it is happening in peacetime between companies like GE and President Obama and Pelosi and her House. I do not know about you but I would rather stay capitalist and not have big business colluding with government to take more of our money and more of our liberty away. Is anyone else concerned about what is happening. We are sliding toward a Jacobin revolution, or toward a Mussolini state or a Nazi type state. Yes I did say Nazi state, as it is was one of the fascist movements, but only one. Socialists wave the spectre of Nazism, whenever they are criticized to say look over on the right, we are the opposite of them, we are as far different as you can get. Well it is time to stop buying that lie because that is exactly what it is, they have been using Nazism as a straw man for decades now. They are like the Wizard of Oz, saying "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain". Well the man behind the curtain are all the socialists who have President Obama's attention that are driving his agenda(homosexuals, abortionists, environmental extremists, etc.) These have all been depicted as on the left. Nope they want as much control in your lives as Mussolini, Hitler, or Stalin ever wanted, except they will take it slowly. The pace of the erosion of your liberties is the only difference between them and Obama and company. One the right are libertarians and capitalism, on the left is every dictatorial type of government you can imagine, we are now headed down the road to fascism, the only question is will we get off the road before it is too late? What lies ahead is not good, not nice, but is dressed up to be nice. Free healthcare, smarter energy, a civilian corps of commited citizens. My question is commited to what, and they are being called volunteers, since when do volunteers get paid.
And of course the secular humanists who in their anti-clerical movement from the French Revolution have simply morphed into today's environmental extremists. Fraternity is their motto, individual rights must succumb to the will of the people. They promote class warfare, you the people must bring down the bourgeoise and the rich. Populism is not bad, Williams Jennings Bryan was a populist, unfortunately all those who wish to impose fascism, present themselves as being someone who will "carry out the will of the people". Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini all rose to power this way, by pretending that they really cared about the people, by pretending to be empathetic. As if they "feel your pain".
The truth is they do not feel your pain and will not feel your pain when they start inflicting it, if you stand in their way you are an enemy of the state(homophobe, climate change denier, red meat eater, energy waster, anti abortion right winger, etc.) . I could go on and on, but how many words does it take for my fellow Americans to understand the dangers that lie ahead if we continue to go down this "yellow brick road" paved by fascists to the Kingdom of Oz. The Kingdom of Oz is supposedly a utopia on earth that these fascists will create. But the truth is the emperor has no clothes, will we notice before we have given away our freedoms to the state in pursuit of material gain(healthcare, etc.). Or will we help our fellow man not by creating new energy and healthcare systems but by reforming the systems we have not radically but change nonetheless. Let's give poor people health insurance on a sliding scale, unless a person is paying part of the cost, they will resent who is helping them. It is basic psychology that this will happen, the underclass will resent and eventually hate those that pay for their benefits. And the populists are there to encourage that hatred and channel it to get themselves elected and re-elected.
Does a glimmer of the future now enter your eye. And does that future look less rosy, I certainly hope so. Our revolution was about freedom. The French revolution was abour turning the existing order(ancien regime) upside down. That is why their motto also included fraternity and equality. Equality and fraternity sound grand. But as Patrick Henry once said "Give me liberty or give me death". That is because without liberty you will lose your life eventually anyway. Where liberty is not, neither is your control over your own life, let alone the pursuit of happiness.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
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